BBC Audio Slideshow – Faces of favelas.

The BBC is running both an inspiring and thoughtful audio slideshow. Audio slideshow: Faces of the favelas The French artist JR first made his mark in Rio de Janeiro last year, as giant......

‘Arrogant, absurd and offensive’.

That's what the photojournalist and founder of photo agency VII, Gary Knight, thinks about duckrabbit (so does duckrabbit's wife). We'll let you be the judge of that ... but really ... honestly, its a bit......

Audio Slideshow – Lisa Hogben V Stevie Smith plus a point of view.

The debate on whether the photographic elite is predominantly made up of a white monoculture rages on at lightstalkers. Gary Knight is the latest to dismiss issues of race and gender in what......

Audio slideshow: Paralysis of a President (BBC online).

When you watch this audio slideshow you can't help but think wouldn't it be amazing if the whole radio series that its taken from, Empire of Liberty, had been a bi-media project. That's......

Audio Slideshow – Guardian.

Is that the worst example of using photoshop to create the appearance of using a tilt-shift lens you've ever seen in a newspaper? Or am I just being unfair? DAVID WHITE THINKS SO: Maybe you’re......

That the word Dadaab is not synonymous with shame.

says something about how little we care about those who need the most care. The headline here is misleading and wrong but the article is powerful. ...

Audio Slideshow – Simple, honest, touching, true.

In January 2008, I received a grant to travel to Haiti with my brother to document the......

Today duckrabbit posted on the RESOLVE blog.

instead of here. If you're a photographer, RESOLVE is always worth a look. ...

Children displaced by violence in Pakistan – Boston Big Picture.

In this series of photographs the Boston Big Picture brings us the faces of the children affected by the ongoing military offensive in North Eastern Pakistan.  It is estimated at least 3 million......

‘Thought you might like this’.

There's something very special when another blogger writes to you because they have discovered someone or something so great that they are gripped with an overwhelming urge to share it with the world. ......

I stopped watching this video at exactly 1 min 8 seconds.

Maybe I'm just sensitive. But I wonder if such images as you'll see at that point in the film really work anymore? In a trailer that has had the Holywood treatment they can......

I keep being drawn back to Soft Cities.

John Bennett's photographic poem to London life. Today this photo by Claire Hutton caught my eye. You could see it but instead Claire has written to say: 'Duckrabbit you are very, very naughty, bad people......

Surfing Liberia?.

Photojournalist Glenna Gordon has a nice story about surfing in Liberia running on the BBC website but it barely scratches beneath the waves. The Liberians are literally portrayed as shadows whilst the expat NGO......

I dig FOTO8’s latest audio slidshow -Ben Graville peeps into the windows of prison vans.

I think it's an interesting piece of social commentary but what do you make of the music? Ciara Leeming love the idea but when......

Ah sweet … somebody loves us.

even if they just outed duckrabbit as a 'white man'. He's not, he's a genetic experiment between two animals that went very, very wrong. The only credit that duckrabbit will take is that he......

Stevie Smith – Not Waving But Drowning.

Nobody heard him, the dead man, But still he lay moaning: I was much further out than you thought And not waving but drowning.Poor chap, he always loved larking And now he's dead It must have been too cold......

Ain’t Soft Cities brilliant.

I can't even begin to explain. On the web, as elsewhere, presentation of photography is everything and John Bennett, celebrated author, blogger, has opened my eyes to new possibilities.  He's created a fragment......

The Resurgence of Hate Groups in the USA.

Long term readers of duckrabbit will know we're a big fan of Bruce Gilden.  Love him or hate him, he gets in peoples faces and never fails to elicit a response. Given some recent posts,......

Zimbabwe’s orhans – BBC Audio Slideshow.

There's a quiet and thoughtful audio slideshow running on the BBC about the harsh reality of life for many of Zimabawe's children.  Take a moment out of your day to watch it and......

Back from the gutter, PDN responds … respect to the Editor Holly Hughes.

On Lack of Diversity in Photography, and in PDN (edited) Yesterday some blogs circulated a note about the fact that of the 24 judges of the 2009 PDN Photo Annual contest, all of......